Growing a business is hard.

Growing it profitably is harder.

You don’t have to do it alone.

JCA Advisory supports specialty food founders with the systems, strategy, and execution needed for profitable, sustainable growth.

How I Can Help

Getting Ready for Wholesale?

You have a great product and real momentum, but you're not sure the business is truly ready to scale into retail and distribution. Before you land the next big account, let's make sure you can execute on it.

Wholesale Readiness Assessment

• Structured diagnostic across strategy, operations, finance, and commercial readiness

• Identifies your highest-leverage gaps and biggest risks before they cost you

• Delivered as a prioritized 90-day action plan — actionable immediately

In Wholesale & Feeling the Strain?

You're in — but growth has created more pressure, not less. Systems are breaking, margins are eroding, and you're running out of bandwidth to fix it while running the business.

Growth Audit

• Uncover what is causing the greatest pain and adversely impacting profitability

Wholesale Expansion Blueprint

• 90-day engagement building the systems, infrastructure, and leadership to scale profitably

• Covers wholesale strategy, margin readiness, operational systems, and commercial infrastructure

• Milestone driven

Fractional Advisor/Partner

Ongoing, retained engagement — embedded in your business.

Experience

• 35+ years of experience building and scaling companies

• Successfully led three companies through sale

• Experience raising venture capital funding

• Built and scaled teams across technology and consumer brands

• Deep experience in both high-growth and turnaround environments

• Former CEO of Grafton Village Cheese and President of Runamok Maple

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